KNOW THE NATURAL IN-BUILT MECHANISM FOR SLEEP
To learn how to sleep, it is important to understand how sleep is controlled. Of course the brain has a lot to do with this. There are two levels of control in our sleeping activities, the higher control.
The higher control. The cerebral cortex, the outermost layer of brain tissue, is the higher control centre. It is the thinking part, the part that determines what sort of IQ we have, what colour of emotion we experience—angry, sad, happy, jealous, frightened, etc.—and is the most influential part of our mind. This can prevent us from falling asleep and is die major cause of insomnia.
The lower control. The sleep centre, which is at the base of the brain in the brain stem, is the lower control centre. It is the trigger to sleep. It is initially influenced by the higher control, but once sleep is triggered off the sleep centre had autonomy. The sleep centre is like other stations in the brain stem, which are responsible for the automatic everyday running of the body. One such station is the temperature centre that acts like a thermostat station, automatically regulating body temperature to around 37° C.
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